Also From California Report

Anti-Fracking Activists in California Take Fight to County Ballots

About 60 percent of oil pumped in California is produced with steam injection or similar methods, which would also be banned under the ballot measures.

Opponents of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, have pushed for a statewide moratorium on the controversial oil production technique. But those efforts haven't gotten far, so now, activists are taking the fight to the local level. KQED Science reporter Lauren Sommer tells us about several California counties where voters will decide the future of fracking in November Reporter: Lauren Sommer